1. Establish a cultural atmosphere of environmental protection and enhance citizens' awareness of environmental protection. China is a country with a complete environmental and cultural system. Since ancient times, our ancestors have created and worshipped various gods of nature, and the traditional philosophical proposition of "harmony between man and nature" has formed an environmental cultural system with this as its core. This is one of the most precious treasures left by our ancestors. This kind of culture is not only the basis for people of a nation to seek and establish environmental awareness from generation to generation, but also always plays a practical role. It permeates people's way of life in the form of cultural factors. This kind of culture provides people with a rational scale to deal with the relationship between man and nature. The continuation and development of Chinese civilization cannot be separated from the profound environmental culture of the Chinese nation. If a nation loses this cultural foundation, it will lose its way in dealing with the relationship with nature. Therefore, it is necessary to mobilize the whole society to pay attention to participation and form a strong cultural atmosphere to protect the environment. To create a cultural atmosphere to protect the environment, we must first update people's environmental protection concepts. Correctly understand and deal with the relationship between man and nature, development and environment, so that the broad masses of people realize that man is the product of the long-term development of nature and that man himself is a part of nature. The global environment is the wealth of all people (including modern people and future generations) and all living things. No one can ignore the stability and balance of the ecosystem for the benefit of local and small groups. Construction and development must protect the environment, conform to nature and respect the laws of nature. Change the values, ways of thinking and production and lifestyle that go against nature. Change the traditional concept of inexhaustible natural resources, replace it with new concepts of "limited resources" and "precious resources", and replace the powerful view of nature that man is the master of nature with the ecological view of harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

2. Establish and improve the environmental education system with China characteristics, strengthen news propaganda, and create a public opinion atmosphere conducive to the development of environmental protection. We should gradually establish a school environmental education system led by the education department and actively cooperate with the environmental department. We should adopt various ways to infiltrate environmental education into all aspects of school education and teaching. Efforts should be made to improve the quality and effect of environmental education and actively carry out activities to create green schools. Strengthen environmental education and training for leading cadres, attach importance to environmental education for farmers, and carry out environmental publicity and education activities in rural areas. Accordingly, the role of newspapers, radio, television and other news media should also form a multi-level pattern of environmental education, instilling in the public the concept that human beings depend on the environment. This paper introduces the present situation of the environment and the trend of environmental changes caused by human activities, describes the human tragedy caused by environmental deterioration, and reveals that the uncontrolled behavior of human beings will lead to their own destruction. Through publicity, the sense of environmental crisis is deeply implanted in the public mind, which stimulates the public's sense of responsibility and participation, and strengthens environmental awareness from education to a habit. Therefore, environmental protection participation has become a conscious behavior. At the same time, carefully plan and organize important environmental commemorative activities such as "World Environment Day", carry out creative, influential and effective large-scale activities such as "Environmental Publicity Week" and "Environmental Culture Festival", carry out extensive and in-depth mobilization, encourage citizens to actively participate and create a cultural atmosphere for environmental protection.

3. Starting from the local reality, mobilize the masses to formulate environmental behavior norms, strive to infiltrate the awareness and actions of protecting the environment, rationally utilizing and saving resources into citizens' daily lives, advocate living habits, consumption concepts and environmental values that conform to green civilization, and gradually incorporate the activities of creating "green communities" into the overall goal of civilized community construction and spiritual civilization construction.

4. Expand environmental rights and raise environmental awareness. Improving environmental awareness by expanding environmental rights and interests is to link the process of improving people's environmental awareness with protecting and improving people's vital interests. By making people gain more and greater environmental rights and interests, we can enhance our understanding, concern and action on environmental issues. Expanding environmental rights and interests mainly includes: ① environmental supervision right. The right of environmental supervision is the right given to social organizations and individual citizens to supervise the behavior of destroying the environment through legal provisions. Article 6 of the Environmental Protection Law of People's Republic of China (PRC) stipulates: "All units and individuals have the obligation to protect the environment. And have the right to sue units and individuals that pollute and destroy the environment. " Although the above-mentioned laws involve some contents of environmental rights to a certain extent, they do not have the nature of any substantive rights, and victims cannot directly invoke the above provisions to specifically request judicial protection. This has greatly dampened citizens' enthusiasm in fighting against acts harmful to the environment, and made citizens' participation in environmental management lose a solid legal guarantee. Therefore, in the basic environmental law, citizens' rights to sunshine, ventilation, tranquility, clean water and clean air should be clearly stipulated. If one of the above rights is endangered, citizens can take up legal weapons to safeguard their rights, thus making public participation in environmental protection a possible and feasible goal. So as to improve citizens' awareness of environmental protection participation. ② Expand the public's right to know about the environment. The right to know about the environment is the right of citizens and social organizations to collect, know and understand information related to environmental issues and environmental policies. Environmental information includes the following environmental status bulletins, air quality weekly (daily), sewage data of polluting enterprises, etc. At present, although China citizens' right to know about the environment has expanded, for example, in recent years, sandstorms have frequently occurred in northern China, the air quality in cities announced on TV, and the exposure of some polluting enterprises. However, there is still a big gap in the right to know about the environment, which shows that citizens do not know enough about the environmental behavior of individual enterprises. China does not stipulate the disclosure system of enterprise environmental information, although enterprises have the obligation to declare and register pollution discharge to the government. However, there is no law that requires these declared information to be made public. The citizens are blind to these enterprises. At the same time, citizens' demand for high-quality environmental information cannot be effectively met. The public not only wants to know what the environmental conditions are, but also wants to know the analysis conclusions related to these conditions. However, the supply of this information is not enough. In addition, citizens do not know enough about the government's process of implementing environmental policies. Little is known about the process of government environmental protection work. The right to know about the environment is the basis of exercising the right to supervise the environment. Only by publishing information on environmental conditions and environmental protection work and expanding citizens' right to know about the environment can we provide necessary conditions for citizens to pay attention to environmental protection and participate in environmental supervision and consultation of major projects. Only in this way can we guide the public to actively participate in environmental public welfare activities and do good and practical things for environmental protection. The expansion of social environmental rights and interests is an important way to improve environmental awareness.

The concept of sustainable development itself is the result of compromise, which is full of contradictions between developed and developing countries in conceptual interests and politics. As a backward developing country, China needs to guide the public to actively participate in environmental public welfare activities, and do good things and do practical things to protect the environment and deepen the concept of sustainable development.